Portrait of Paul Sérusier
1893
Émile Bernard
Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)
Drawings
Portrait of Paul Sérusier, 1893. Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941). Gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper; sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); secondary support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson 2018.76 Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.
- Maker/Artist
- Bernard, Émile
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed, lower left, in diluted ink: Portrait de Paul Séruzier / Emile Bernard / Florence 1893
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2018.76
- Credit Line
- Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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